Technology and the Effective Marketer (Part Two)
In part two of this series I’ll focus on the comprehensive marketing technology solution and then in part 3 we’ll look at customer intelligence driven marketing, the customer data value chain and the technology that underpins that approach. One of…
A Racap of Oracle OpenWorld 2012
It was in several ways a very different Oracle message at OpenWorld last week, as the company has rapidly moved over the past year to build out a series of offerings that address what IDC calls the four pillars; social,…
From "Social Applications" to Applications that are Social
I spent the first part of this week at VMworld, mostly catching up on two acquired products, SocialCast and Zimbra, as well as the Horizon product line. I continue to be impressed with the feature set and depth of the…
The Next Generation Enterprise Platform
Now that I’ve had a a few weeks since Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference to think more about Salesforce’s new positioning around social enterprise I’m starting to put something together around enterprise platforms that hadn’t occurred to me. Taking some of the…
Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility
How do the overarching digital strategies of today’s 21st century enterprise relate to social business and smart mobility? It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more frequently as these two major new trends become primary areas of focus in organizations around the world. The reality is today that large organizations continue to struggle with [...]
Oracle Reports Q4 2011 / FY2011 Results – First $10B Quarter
Oracle reported its Q4 and FY2011 year end results and once again posted impressive numbers including its first quarter with over $10B in total revenue and first quarter with over $1B revenue in applications. New software licenses grew 19% year over year and improved on the FY 2010 growth rate of 14%. Oracle’s business was [...]
IDC 2011 Innovative Companies to Watch Program Now Open for Applications
It’s that time of year again, time to take a look at innovation in the world of enterprise software and see what new products are out there that have creative solutions to and exemplify the key application trends for this…
Oracle Reports Q3 2011 Results: 34% Growth in Aplications
Oracle reported strong Q3 2011 results across all product lines last week. Okay, that’s not necessarily a new thing this quarter, in general, Oracle has reported better than the market average for several years now, even through the recession. But…
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-01-31
Enterprise news and headlines, second half of January 2011 Salesforce.com takes it to a new level with Super Bowl ads, SAP and Microsoft reposition themselves for the cloud – while juggling execs and responsibilities, Microsoft sues former employees and their new employers, Oracle raises the ire of the open source community, Microsoft and SAP deliver [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, First Half of January 2011
2011 has gotten off to a very interesting start inthe world of enterprise software and solutions. Headlines and summaries follow, but so far we’ve seen an announcement that Eric Schmidt is stepping down from his role as CEO of Google,that HP is turning over a substantial fraction of its board under the new leadership of [...]
